CHILDREN WITH MELON AND CAT

Details

SUSAN C. WATERS (1823-1900)
CHILDREN WITH MELON AND CAT
oil on canvas
43 1/2 x 35 in.

Provenance

Henry N. Hinckley, Ithaca, New York
Ralph and Suzanne Katz, East Brunswick, New Jersey
Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 2017, lot 5132

Literature

Colleen Cowles Heslip, Mrs. Susan C. Waters: 19th-Century Itinerant Painter (Farmville, VA, 1979), p. 27, cat. no. 23.
Colleen Cowles Heslip, "Susan C. Waters," The Magazine Antiques (April 1979), p. 771.
Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo, "Beyond Tradition: A Folk Art Collection in New Hampshire," Antiques & Fine Art (Summer/Autumn, 2006), p. 134.

Exhibited

Farmville, Virginia, Longwood Fine Arts Center, Mrs. Susan C. Waters: 19th Century Itinerant Painter, 19 October-19 November 1979.

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Lot Essay

With vivid colors and fine details the present work is attributed to female artist Susan C. Waters (1823-1900). The inclusion of flowers, as seen here, is a signature of the artist. For further information on Waters, see Colleen Cowles Heslip, Mrs. Susan C. Waters: 19th-Century Itinerant Painter (Farmville, VA, 1979).

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